portal
English
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Etymology
From Medieval Latin portale, from porta.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təl
Noun
portal (plural portals)
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- (Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
- (anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
- (science fiction and fantasy) A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
- (architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- (architecture) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
- (Can we date this quote by Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
- (Can we date this quote by Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
Hyponyms
- (elevated corridor permitting access to a plane from an airport): See jet bridge
Derived terms
Translations
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Adjective
portal (not comparable)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- Category:Portals on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
portal m or f (masculine and feminine plural portals)
Noun
portal m (plural portals)
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese portal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin portalis, from Latin porta (“gate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
portal m (plural portais)
- portal
- 1395, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 555:
- seendo o Conçello da dicta vila da Crunna ajuntado por pregon en o portal da iglesia de Santiago da dicta vila. segundo que an de huso et de costume
- being the Council of the aforementioned town of A Coruña reunited by announcement at the portal of the church of Saint James of the mentioned town, as they have as customary usage
- seendo o Conçello da dicta vila da Crunna ajuntado por pregon en o portal da iglesia de Santiago da dicta vila. segundo que an de huso et de costume
- Synonym: pórtico
- 1395, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 555:
- porch, portico
- 1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 64:
- que façades ẽna dita cassa dous portaes cõ súas portas et alpénderes contra a rrúa do Çiqueello
- you must build at that house two porches, with their doors and their roofs, on the Sequelo street
- que façades ẽna dita cassa dous portaes cõ súas portas et alpénderes contra a rrúa do Çiqueello
- 1434, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 609:
- Manda o conçello et os alcalldes, regidores et procuradores desta villa da crunna de parte de noso sennor el Rey et do dito conçello da dita villa et porque asi he ordenança antiga que nehunus çapateiros et outras quasquer personas que non sejan çapateiros et vezinnos et moradores da dita villa et en ela non pagan talla con os outros çapateiros vezjnnos da dita villa que non son confrades dos çapateiros asi como os çapateiros de portal, que non vsen dos ditos ofiçios de çapateria nen vendan çapatos nen botas nen outro calçado de coiro en publico nen ascondido nen los ponnan en tendas nen portaes nen anden a vender por la dita villa et pescaria dela Et desde Palavea et media legoa da villa enderredor a villa saluo se os venderen a engros aos ditos çapateiros que viuen et moran na dita villa ou eles os consentiren vender en seus portaes.
- the council and mayors, councilmen and agents of this town of A Coruña, on behalf of our lord the King and of this town council, and because so it is an old ordinance; that no shoemaker or whichever other person who is not a shoemaker and neighbour and dweller of the said town and in it they did not pay contributions with the other shoemakers neighbours of the said town and which are not a brother of the guild of the shoemakers, as well as the shoemakers who work at their porches; that they should not use of this office of shoemaking nor should they sell shoes nor boots nor any other leather footwear, nor publicly, nor in hiding, nor should they put them in shops nor porches nor should they go selling them around this town and its fishery [outskirts neighbourhood], nor from Palavea and half a league around this town, except if they sell them in bulk to the said shoemakers that live and dwell in the said town or if they let them sell at their porches
- Manda o conçello et os alcalldes, regidores et procuradores desta villa da crunna de parte de noso sennor el Rey et do dito conçello da dita villa et porque asi he ordenança antiga que nehunus çapateiros et outras quasquer personas que non sejan çapateiros et vezinnos et moradores da dita villa et en ela non pagan talla con os outros çapateiros vezjnnos da dita villa que non son confrades dos çapateiros asi como os çapateiros de portal, que non vsen dos ditos ofiçios de çapateria nen vendan çapatos nen botas nen outro calçado de coiro en publico nen ascondido nen los ponnan en tendas nen portaes nen anden a vender por la dita villa et pescaria dela Et desde Palavea et media legoa da villa enderredor a villa saluo se os venderen a engros aos ditos çapateiros que viuen et moran na dita villa ou eles os consentiren vender en seus portaes.
- 1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 64:
- gate
- Synonym: cancela
- hall
Derived terms
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- “portal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “portal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch portaal, from French, from Latin porta.
Pronunciation
Noun
portal (first-person possessive portalku, second-person possessive portalmu, third-person possessive portalnya)
- portal
- gate.
- entry point.
- (colloquial) barrier at entry point.
- (colloquial) website as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
Further reading
- “portal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French portal.
Noun
portal m (plural portaulx)
- gate (doorlike structure usually outside of a building or property)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (portal)
Occitan
Alternative forms
- portau (Gascon, Provençal, Limousin, Auvernhat, Vivaro-Alpine)
Pronunciation
Noun
portal m (plural portals)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
portal oblique singular, m (oblique plural portaus or portax or portals, nominative singular portaus or portax or portals, nominative plural portal)
- gate (doorlike structure usually outside of a building or property)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (portal)
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
portal m inan
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: por‧tal
Noun
portal m (plural portais)
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
portal n (plural portaluri)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) portal | portalul | (niște) portaluri | portalurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) portal | portalului | (unor) portaluri | portalurilor |
vocative | portalule | portalurilor |
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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Portal, from Latin porta.
Pronunciation
Noun
pòrtāl m (Cyrillic spelling по̀рта̄л)
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
portal m (plural portales)
Related terms
See also
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